by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
The Abbott government introduced a new page in Australian tax assessments that provides a breakdown of where your taxes go. I’m not sure whose idea it was but I really like the concept. It might be one of the only positive achievements of Abbott’s 726 days in office....
by Carl Howard | Jun 2, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment
[CN: Dehumanisation, crimes against humanity] In addition to the problems intrinsic to homelessness, homeless people often suffer from deliberate harm by others. For example, Social cleansing is the act of targeting people you deem “undesirable” for the...
by Carl Howard | May 8, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism, Society
In the last decade, we’ve seen an explosion in the media of country-based rankings/indexes that are meant to measure more than “just” traditional economic metrics like GDP. While GDP is an important measure that tells us something about what’s going on in a region,...
by Carl Howard | Mar 24, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
I’m liveblogging tonight’s ThinkActChange: Ending the Asylum Seeker Debate event. Speakers include: Kon Karapanagiotidis, Founder & CEO – Asylum Seekers Resource Centre Ben Doherty, Journalist – The Guardian Imogen Bailey, Actress & Ambassador, The Hot Potato...
by Carl Howard | Feb 25, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism
You know what’s really fucking annoying? When someone has a list of cognitive biases of fallacies that they love to stick on situations. “You’ve just committed an egreggious case of petitio principii, also known as begging the question for you plebs!” and the like....
by Carl Howard | Jan 12, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
2014 was not a great year for the world by any means. If you haven’t seen this great cartoon from The Nib summarising just some of the shitty things that happened, you should. So naturally, what did 2015 do so far? Promise to be a much much shittier year, if these...
